You're reading from Learning Tableau 2022 Create effective data visualizations, build interactive visual analytics, and improve your data storytelling capabilities

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801072328

Length 568 pages

Edition 5th Edition

Tools

Tableau

Concepts

Business Intelligence

Author (1):

Joshua N. Milligan

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Taking Off with Tableau FREE CHAPTER

2. Connecting to Data in Tableau

3. Moving Beyond Basic Visualizations

4. Starting an Adventure with Calculations and Parameters

5. Leveraging Level of Detail Calculations

6. Diving Deep with Table Calculations

7. Making Visualizations that Look Great and Work Well

8. Telling a Data Story with Dashboards

9. Visual Analytics: Trends, Clustering, Distributions, and Forecasting

10. Advanced Visualizations

11. Dynamic Dashboards

12. Exploring Mapping and Advanced Geospatial Features

13. Integrating Advanced Features: Extensions, Scripts, and AI

14. Understanding the Tableau Data Model, Joins, and Blends

15. Structuring Messy Data to Work Well in Tableau

16. Taming Data with Tableau Prep

17. Sharing Your Data Story

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

19. Index

Interactivity with actions

In Tableau, an action is a user-initiated event that triggers a response from Tableau. You’ve seen a few examples of actions being used in dashboards already. We’ll now consider some details of how actions work in Tableau.

Tableau supports six kinds of actions:

Filter actions: The user’s action causes one or more filters to be applied to one or more views.
Highlight actions: The user’s action causes specific marks and headers to be highlighted in one or more views.
URL actions: The user’s action causes a specific URL to be opened (either in a browser, in a new tab, or in an embedded web object).
Go to Sheet: The user’s action causes navigation to a selected sheet or dashboard.
Parameter actions: The user’s action changes the value of a parameter. This allows the user to visually interact with parameters in new and exciting ways!
Set actions: The user’s action...

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